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Smoke In the Cockpit: EVAS Vision Tunnel
Dec 10, 2025 12 min

Smoke In the Cockpit: EVAS Vision Tunnel

Cockpit smoke emergencies in air carrier and commercial jet ops are more common than you might think. So common that a company called VisionSafe developed the EVAS—for Emergency Vision Assurance Sy...

Dynon Avionics: Growing Market Reach
Nov 21, 2025 14 min

Dynon Avionics: Growing Market Reach

Avionics buyers want options. With roots planted deeply in the experimental aircraft market, Dynon Avionics has been gaining sizable momentum in the current market with a wide range of avionics pro...

Avionics Training: Sims Work Best
Nov 04, 2025 21 min

Avionics Training: Sims Work Best

Flight1's advanced sims offer G1000 NXi realism for Cirrus and Piper pilots—ideal tools for avionics mastery outside the cockpit.

Nighthawk Guardian Flight Deck—Is it a Disruptor?
Oct 31, 2025 18 min

Nighthawk Guardian Flight Deck—Is it a Disruptor?

At AirVenture 2025 at Oshkosh, Nighthawk Flight Systems got a lot of attention when it showed a clean sheet integrated avionics suite called Guardian. The Guardian was an attention getter with its ...

Aircraft Insurance Policies: AI for Assessing Risk
Oct 24, 2025 18 min

Aircraft Insurance Policies: AI for Assessing Risk

In a hardened insurance market that's causing grief for pilots of complex and tailwheel models, Maryland-based SkyWatch Aviation Insurance has been gaining attention for its modern approach to asse...

How not to crash a plane—and tips for survival if you do
Oct 01, 2025 23 min

How not to crash a plane—and tips for survival if you do

We continue to wreck airplanes for the same reasons we always have, but there are plenty of things we can do to survive—if not avoid the mistakes in the first place. Respected aviation author Rick ...

Supercharger on a Cirrus: Effective, but orphaned
Sep 23, 2025 11 min

Supercharger on a Cirrus: Effective, but orphaned

While not exactly turbochargers, superchargers are air compressors directly driven by the engine via a belt, gears or the crankshaft. Forced Aeromotive, with its bolt-on belt-driven supercharger mo...

Texting ATC: Expanding Data Comm
Sep 18, 2025 18 min

Texting ATC: Expanding Data Comm

The FAA's CPDLC Data Communication program delivers air-to-ground textual data that eases radio congestion and can reduce both controller and pilot workload. It's not exactly new technology and for...

Experimental First Flights with Paul Dye
Sep 11, 2025 31 min

Experimental First Flights with Paul Dye

You've spent years building your experimental kit aircraft and it's finally time for its first flight. Of all the milestones in a build project it's the most serious and carries the most risk. But ...

High Flying Hangars: More Than Aircraft Storage
Sep 03, 2025 23 min

High Flying Hangars: More Than Aircraft Storage

It's a dilemma at a lot of airports—you score the airplane of your dreams, but soon realize that sourcing a hangar to keep it in safe storage is nearly impossible. Long lead times for occupying coo...

Cockpit Eyewear and the Meyers 200 with Dean Siracusa
Aug 26, 2025 22 min

Cockpit Eyewear and the Meyers 200 with Dean Siracusa

There are plenty of good reasons to make informed decisions when investing big in a pair of eyeglasses for flying. Think of protection in case of a birdstrike and crash, optical clarity for using g...